Silhouette of a person with arms outstretched at sunrise over a vast horizon, symbolizing solitude and freedom.

Fortress of One

Solitude is never fashionable. The world worships noise—likes, followers, group chats, endless parties where the music is bad and the conversations worse. Yet here’s the secret: if you can endure silence without mistaking it for rejection, you forge an iron frame. To be alone and not collapse—that’s the first taste of freedom.
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The Long Reckoning
For twenty-five years the world dodged every reckoning, each crisis smothered in money-printing and wishful thinking. But debts do not vanish;…
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